Loom-temple



(No Model.)

S. HAMBLIN.

LOOM TEMPLE. No. 445,336. Patented Jan. 27, 189 1.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILYANUS l'l'AMBLIN, OF NEW 'EEDFORD, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DANIEL E. DAMON, OF PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOO'M-TEM PLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,386, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed August 7, 1889. Serial No. 320,060. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, SILVANUS HAMBLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in temples for looms of that class wherein the rollers are so constructed as notto perforate or injure the cloth; and it has for its object to provide an improved temple wherein the cloth may be more readily led to the rollers and which shall better hold the cloth and preserve a self-adjusting uniform tensioni The invention consists in the peculiarity of construction, and the novel combinations and arrangement and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in wl1ich- Figure l is a perspective view of the head of the temple with both of the rollers in position. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section through the same, and Fig. 3 a top plan with the cap and one of the rollers removed.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A represents the stem, provided with the curved trough B, the free end of which is provided with an upwardly-extending lip I3 that serves as a bearing for the pintle of one of the rollers, as shown at B, the opposite bearing for the said pintle being in the stem A.

O is a cap detachably held to the stem A by suitable means as ascrew O. This cap is formed at opposite corners with the lugs 0 which form a bearing for opposite end of one roller, as shown at C This leaves a curved passage D at one side of the temple, through which the cloth may be readily introduced between the rollers.

The rollers are represented by the letter E. They are corrugated, as shown. As the cloth is drawn forward between them these rollers revolve upon their pintles or shafts, and the corrugations and ribs of the rollers prevent any lateral movements of the cloth While being woven. The rollers are arranged in a substantially horizontal plane, which I have found from experience to be preferable to their being arranged one above the other. The corrugations or grooves in these rollers are preferably slightly oblique or in a spiral or screw form, as indicated in Fig. 2, and the number of ribs or corrugations upon each roller may be arranged to suit the kind of cloth to be held thereby.

hat I claim as new is- 1. In a temple for looms, the combination, with the stem having a curved trough, of the cap formed with depending bearings at opposite ends, and two rollers arranged in substantially the same horizontal plane, one carried by the cap and the otherby the stem and trough, substantially as described.

2. In a temple for looms, the combination, with the stem having a curved trough formed with an upweirdly-extending lip, and the detachable cap formed with depending lugs at opposite corners, of two corrugated rollers, one having its bearings in the lugs on the cap and the other its bearings in the lips of the trough and the stem, substantially as described.

3. In a temple for looms, the combination, with the stem having a curved trough and upwardly-eXtending-lip, of the roller having its bearings in said lip and the stem, the detachable cap formed with depending lugs, a second roller having hearings in said lugs, witha curved passageway between the rollers, said rollers being arranged in substantially the same horizontal plane and the cap covering both rollers, substantially as specified.

SILVANUS HAMBLIN.

Witnesses:

THOMAS E. DREW, JAMES C. BATES. 

